OBIT: Nevin E. BRANT, 1943, Somerset, Somerset County, PA

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NEVIN E. BRANT

Somerset County Soldier Killed in Train Disaster
Sad Fate of Corporal Nevin E. Brant - Was On Way Home to Spend Christmas with 
Mother

  A Somerset R.D., soldier, Corporal Nevin Eugene Brant, technician fifth grade, 
was among the victims of the Atlantic Coast Line double train wreck, near Buies, 
N.C., early last Thursday morning.  Corporal Brant was enroute to Somerset to 
spend Christmas.
  His mother Mrs. Mabel Brant, whose home is near Bakersville, received word 
from the War Department that her son was among the 50 service men and women and 
30 civilians killed when the two crack[sic] trains crashed.
  Corporal Brant, who was only 23, was enroute home from Fort Moultrie, near 
Charlestown, S.C., where he was stationed with the field artillery, in the 263rd 
ordnance department.
  Mrs. Brant, who left her home in the fall to teach school at Newton Falls, 
Ohio, arrived in Somerset Saturday evening, having driven through from Ohio, 
with her two sons, Edwin, 20, and Ward, 11.
  Mortician Charles R. Hauger at the request of Mrs. Brant notified the War 
Department to ship the body to Somerset.
  Corporal Brant, who has been in service for a little over a year, was inducted 
from an Ohio board, but returned to Somerset to leave with selectees from draft 
board 2, in the fall of 1942.
  He was with the field artillery at Fort Moultrie, S.C., and wrote to his 
mother two weeks ago that he would be home for Christmas.  Mrs. Brant was 
preparing to return to Somerset, to open her house on R.D. 6 for the home 
coming.  The dead soldier was the son of Nevin E. Brant, Sr., who died six years 
ago, and Mrs. Mabel (Brant) Brant.  Upon completion of grade school in 
Bakersville, he attended Somerset High School for one year then secured work 
with the Hunkin-Conkey Construction Company in Ohio, working there until called 
into the service.  In his last letter to his mother, the youthful soldier wrote 
that he wanted to come back for a "good old fashioned Christmas in Somerset 
County," and she should have everything ready for his arrival, including the 
opening of the house.
  His brother Edwin is employed by the Atlas Powder company in Ravenna, Ohio, 
near Newton Falls.

Meyersdale Republican, December 23, 1943